NASA kick-starts a fresh push to bring Mars samples home
The plan is to establish a fresh NASA strategy for gathering Mars samples collected by the Perseverance rover and launching them back to Earth.
Key points
- NASA is kickstarting a new initiative for its troubled Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, called the Perseverance Sample Retrieval Architecture, or PSRA in space shorthand.
- 9 by Tiffany Morgan, director of the NASA Mars Exploration Program (MEP), during the virtual meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG).
- Yet another appraisal group ended up finding it feasible to return Mars samples as early as 2035 for a less costly ship and shoot cost of some $8 billion.
NASA and the European Space Agency have for years been intently plotting out plans to send future spacecraft to Mars and haul those Perseverance-plucked bits, pieces, and sniffs of atmosphere to Earth for rigorous inspection here on Earth using state-of-the-art equipment.
Additional details
- That car-sized robot has been grabbing select specimens from across the area and gingerly dropping the sealed pick-me-ups on the surface of Mars, as well as stuffing them inside the rover itself.
- This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes deposited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at the Three Forks sample depot, as viewed by the WATSON camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm.
- In the first place, why are samples from Mars delivered by robotic means?
- Pick-me-ups The backdrop to the PSRA activity is that there's one busy rover already on the Red Planet snagging and bagging samples.
- He highlighted recommendations stemming from a workshop in which he participated, held last May and organized by Explore Mars, Inc.
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